Research Catalog

Title

Medical glossaries in the Hebrew tradition : Shem Tov ben Isaac, Sefer Almansur : with a supplement on the Romance and Latin terminology / by Gerrit Bos, Guido Mensching, Julia Zwink.

Author

Shem Tov ben Isaak, of Tortosa, active 13th century

Publication

• Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]
• ©2017

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bos, Gerrit, 1948-
• Mensching, Guido
• Zwink, Julia
• Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā, 865?-925?

Description

xi, 118 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

The 'Sefer Almansur' is a Hebrew pharmacopeia containing about 250 medicinal ingredients, which are arranged in an Arabic, Romance (Old Occitan), Hebrew glossary. The materia medica, which describes the properties and therapeutical uses of simple drugs, was translated from Arabic (Kitab al-Mansur, written by al-Razi) into Hebrew by Shem Tov ben Isaac of Tortosa, who worked in Marseille in the 13th century. Gerrit Bos, Guido Mensching and Julia Zwink supply a critical edition of the Hebrew text, an English translation and an analysis of the Romance and Latin terminology in Hebrew transcription. The authors show the pharmaceutical terminological innovation of Hebrew and of the vernacular, and give us proof of the important role of medieval Jews in preserving and transferring medical knowledge.

Series Statement

Études sur le judaïsme médiéval ; tome 72

Uniform Title

Études sur le judaïsme médiéval ; t. 72.

Alternative Title

• ‏ספר אלמנצור.
• Sefer Almansur.

Subjects

• Hebrew language, Medieval
• Shem Tov ben Isaak, of Tortosa, active 13th century
• Medicine, Medieval
• Hebrew language, Medieval > Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
• Terminology
• Shem Tov ben Isaak, of Tortosa, active 13th century > Sefer Almansur
• Medicine, Arab
• Medicine, Medieval > Terminology
• Latin language, Medieval and modern > Transliteration into Hebrew
• Arabic language > Transliteration into Hebrew
• Glossaries, vocabularies, etc

Genre/Form

• Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
• Terminology.

Note

• Includes indexes.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Language (note)

• Text in English and Hebrew, with some footnotes containing Arabic terms.

Contents

Introduction. 1. Multilingual Medical Glossaries in Hebrew Characters ; 2. Shem Tov Ben Isaac of Tortosa ; 3. Shem Tov's Translation of the List of Medicinal Ingredients ; 4. Romance and Latin Terms -- Hebrew Text and English Translation -- Supplement: Romance and Latin Terms in the Sefer al-Manṣuri -- Indexes. Terms in Hebrew Characters (Hebrew, Arabic, Romance, and Latin) ; English ; Romance and Latin (as Interpreted from the Hebrew Forms) ; Non-Identified (Romance or Latin?) Terms.

Call Number

JFE 18-9209

ISBN

• 9789004352025
• 9004352023

LCCN

2017028041

OCLC

989755201

Author

Shem Tov ben Isaak, of Tortosa, active 13th century, author.

Title

Medical glossaries in the Hebrew tradition : Shem Tov ben Isaac, Sefer Almansur : with a supplement on the Romance and Latin terminology / by Gerrit Bos, Guido Mensching, Julia Zwink.

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]

Copyright Date

©2017

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Études sur le judaïsme médiéval ; tome 72

Études sur le judaïsme médiéval ; t. 72.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Language

Text in English and Hebrew, with some footnotes containing Arabic terms.

Added Author

Bos, Gerrit, 1948- writer of added text.

Mensching, Guido, writer of added text.

Zwink, Julia, writer of added text.

Shem Tov ben Isaak, of Tortosa, active 13th century. Sefer Almansur.

Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā, 865?-925? Kitāb al-Manṣūrī.

Added Title

Sefer Almansur.

Alternate Script for Added Title

‏ספר אלמנצור.

Other Form:

9789004352032

(GyWOH)har175017916

Research Call Number

JFE 18-9209